Caution is the lower story of prudence.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The mathematics of high achievement

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.